Hip 2 Save is a blog about coupons and saving money that gets 1.9-2.2 million page views per month.  Our client was in the middle of a giveaway of 20 $100 Amazon gift cards, to benefit Toys for Tots, and Blogger  flagged the site as potential spam and disabled it.  This occurred at 1am on Friday morning as the comments on her post climbed over 7000 responses.  As of this post the site is still off line.  Unfortunately for our client, she hosts her on the domain name hip2save.blogspot.com, which can not be redirected till the site comes back up.

To say that it has been disruptive is an understatement.

You can read about the process on her temporary website if you like.  Hip2save.com

Make sure you read the comments, her readers are very loyal.

One interesting good point about this issue is that we have been working with this client for the last two months to complete a new version of the site that we host.  The original plan was to launch the site in the first week of January, beta it over Christmas holiday, and we are just pushing that date up.  We are finishing it up all this weekend in case the blogger site is not back up on Monday.  Hopefully, everything will be fine and we can take the time to finish all the little tweaks for the new site, but if not, we are going for it.

This is something that we are going to write a case study about, that is sure.

The day before, I will be attending the Internet Summit in RTP, which is a huge event with a ton of top-tier speakers.  My plan is to work on my presentation the evening before and incorporate are much of the material from the Summit as possible.  My goal is to capture the highlights and bring them to people who could not make the event.

If you are going to the IS, please let me know, I would love to catch up there.

Visit the following link for more information about the UNCW event: http://uncwec.org/events/?event_id=15

From the snow boarding of West VA to the Florida Keys, the Mobile Party Strike Force is the one to reconked with.

Originally designed by Megan while she worked at dot. Ventures, the logo has been around for a while.

Be a fan on facebook

An Eagle with a Keg.

Check it: http://www.cafepress.com/mpsf

I am adding a new category to my blog for things that I have spent too long looking for online.

Now when ever I need to find something that I only need once every couple years, I can save the Google searching. I have to admit, I found this one with Bing.  Maybe someone else with the same problem will find this with out the hassle.

When Geeklog’s FCKeditor returns a javascript:void(0);

There are two ways to fix it.  1. Upgrade to the newest version. 2. Follow the instructions here http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18830

If that link is dead,

So, in the file:
/FCKeditor/editor/js/fckeditorcode_gecko_2.js

change

var oLink=document.evaluate(..  to


var oLink=this.EditorDocument.evaluate( ..

if you don’t have fckeditorcode_gecko_2.js, the comparable change in fckeditorcode_gecko.js is:

var C=document.evaluate("//a[@href='"+B+"']"

becomes

var C=this.EditorDocument.evaluate("//a[@href='"+B+"']"

We have two great new client, ACT Medical Group and Swim Envy.  Both need brand new website by the end of August, so it is going to be a busy month.

Swim Envy sells designer swimwear and accessories and ACT Medical Group place clincians in assisted living facilities.   Not too much of an overlap, but they are both going to be great projects.

For now I will be blogging over there.

While taking a break to catch up on digg, I found that someone had already pretty much done my whole presentation in a rap.  I might just play this on the screen, drop the (figurative) mic, and go home. Not sure if I would be invited back, but I think I would get the same point across.

Almost 1/2 million views when I found it, not bad.

The lyrics after the jump

Hey, this is Chuck, Design and coding
the design of your site and the coding of your site
and keep it coded til how your site is optimized
and the conversions you get…

if you design the coding right it’ll work for you
check it out

Your site design: the first thing people see
it should be reflective of you and the industry

easy to look at with a nice navigation
when they can’t find what they want it causes frustration

a clear call to action to increase the temptation
use appealing graphics they create motivation

if you have animation please use moderation
cause search engines can’t index the information

display the logos of all associations
highlight your contact info that’s an obligation

create a clean design you can use some decoration
but to try to prevent any client hesitation

every page that they click should provide an explanation
should be easy to understand like having a conversation

create a site style you can use imagination
but make sure you use correct color combinations

do some investigation, look at other organizations
but don’t duplicate or you might face a litigation

you done, congratulations, start construction
move into production, please follow these instructions

your Photoshop functions, slice that design
do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned

please don’t use tables even though they work fine
when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time

make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide
remove font type, font color and font size

no background colors, keep your coding real neat,
tag your look and feel on a separate style sheet

better results with xml and css
now you making progress, a lil’ closer to success

describe your doctype so the browser can relate
make sure you do it great or it won’t validate

check in all browsers, I do it directly
gotta make sure that it renders correctly

some use IE, some others use Flock
some use AOL, I use Firefox

title everything including links and images
don’t use italics, use emphasis

don’t use bold, please use strong
if you use bold that’s old and wrong

you use CSS, you page will load quicker
your client satisfied like they eating on a Snicker

they stuck on your page like you made it with a sticker
and then they convert now that’s the real kicker

make you a lil’ richer, your site a lil’ slicker
design and code right, man, I hope you get the picture
what I’m telling you is true, man, it should be a scripture

if it’s built right you’ll be the pick of the litter
everyone will want to follow you like twitter

competition will get bitter, you’ll shine like glitter
if you trying to grow your company will get bigger

design and code right, man, can you get with it.

design coding

It is the ten crack commandments for web design.